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Iso-Pox name copyrighted by Surewhynot and WhiteandBluetheykillyouAs I get back into Magic the last format I have gotten back into is modern and as they are currently no modern control decks I found interesting I decided to take a legacy deck I have seen on this site a few times from the two names listed above and transfer it to modern, also as of now it is as close to a net deck as possible sorry :/ but this is just a platform to start.I have yet to build this deck... (Waiting for paychecks ^_^) but it will be under construction shortly ... This is just the first Rendition so it is far short of the finished product so any suggestions based upon your experience in the modern metagame are much appreciated!
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Because of the cardpool in modern, and the unfortunate lack of tutors, it's probably best to try to cut some of the one of's to round off a few playsets (particularly isochron scepter and silence, they are a far more devastating combo in modern than legacy).I like the curse of the cabal one of though, very nice card.Because smallpox is the only card that detriments you, it's probably ok to go to 23 or 24 lands rather than 26.That's all i've got for now, but i'll let you know if i think of anything else. I love this archetype.
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Thanks for Commenting and sorry to get back to you so late! I must admit I love the idea of this archetype as well and cant wait to playtest the deck. As for your suggestions, thinking on them, I believe you are right but I am decidig between the maze, bog, or an inquisition to cut. I'm leading towards cutting the maze and the inquisition for the scepter and the silence... Thoughts?
Maze is a little slow, and bog isn't really the right kind of graveyard hate for modern archetypes...The inquisitions should stay though. G1 versus melira pod: inquisition, hit melira, surgical extraction, they scoop.
Good points... However there is not much melira pod in my meta a lot of affinity though -_-... Not that the bog and maze would help in those matchups anyway... I was thinking a single inquisition because the raven's crime fills that void but I believe you're right
Really? My shop is like 60% melira pod. hm...
Haha well I wish I was at your shop then. Although there is also quite a bit of splinter twin which I can handle better
There are two major limiting factors between Legacy and Modern when it comes to Iso-Pox (in fact these are limiting factors of each of the "Big Three"). The first being the artifacts. Most of the crippling artifacts available to Iso-Pox in legacy are just not available in Modern, and even worse, few things can come close to the same effect. The second thing is the lack of Enlightened Tutor. Even if you had these awesome trinkets, it's a much bigger chore to get them into your hand. You have to do things like run a full playset of Isochron (you could probably drop to 3 by the way). Now, you could say there's a third issue -- No Pox. However, you do have Smallpox, and some Iso-Pox lists just run that and they do great. I personally like "Big Pox" more, but we can deal.So you have Isochron, you have Seek, and you have Smallpox. The trick now is to finagle the deck to have similar layers of defense that its Legacy big brother has. I have to say, as far as the spell suite goes, you did a damn good job. The legacy version IS better, sure, but not by very much, and that's awesome. Normally I would say you should ditch CotC for Living End, but in this case, CotC is working as a psuedo-smokestack, and the only other thing I can think of for that slot is Descent into Madness, and I think that would get too out of hand (plus you have the whole issue of no Mysty =/). SOOOOO, what I think you should do instead is have both CotC and LE. CotC is your sorta-Stax and LE is your sorta-Disk.I think that's all, but as you can see I was ramble-typing haha. I literally just put down what came to mind, and I'm not sure if I left anything out, but if I did, I'll be sure to add it in later =]
Thanks for taking the time to comment Sure!Reading your post two things come to mind. Personally I can't take credit for the spell suite. That would go to you and whiteandblue as I tried to make it as close to your Wave of Mutilation deck, and WhiteandBlue's Unicron deck as possible and I also looked at WhiteAndBlue's New Macabre deck for a few inspiration cards. I personally do not like net decking but when you don't know what you're doing you gotta have something to start with :/ Also, i'm curious as to what makes LE a more viable sweeper option than say a damnation or day of judgement? I may be being short sighted and slightly naive but I just don't see many situations where Living end would be more useful. Again I appreciate you taking the time to comment and help improve my deck!
LE has the advantage that you can (well, have to) suspend it. This lets you set up for a nasty gravestorm from Bitter Ordeal. In addition, it has the potential to cause a LOT more things to be sent to the 'yard. Best of all, in my opinion, is everyone sacs the creatures instead of having them destroyed...Nothing avoids sacrifice =]
Ahh I hadn't thought about the synergy with bitter ordeal. Haha and sacrificing is my favorite effect in Magic; self-sacrificing, making other people sacrifice, most of the decks I actually run revolve around some sort of sacrificing ^_^. Thank you so much for your help!